20th Century OFEC Entities

Number	circ/non-circ	Main Entity Name	Sub-Entity Name	Political Designation	from	to	coins from	coins to
0997	Circulating	Zimbabwe	Southern Rhodesia	Ruler Change	1952	1953	1953	1954
0998	Circulating	Zimbabwe	Rhodesia	British Self Governing Colony	1964	1970	1964	1968
0999	Circulating	Zimbabwe	Rhodesia, Republic of	Republic	1970	1978	1970	1977
1000	Circulating	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Republic	1980	eoc	1980	1999
1001	Non-Circ	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	Democratic 2nd Republic	1987	1992	1989	1990
1002	Non-Circ	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	Islamic State	1992	eoc	1995	2000
1003	Non-Circ	Alderney	Alderney	Ruler Change	1952	eoc	1989	2000
1004	Non-Circ	American Samoa	American Samoa	US Territory	1901	eoc	1988	1988
1005	Non-Circ	Andorra	Andorra	Co-Principality	1901	eoc	1960	1965
1006	Non-Circ	Andorra	Andorra	Coinage Reform			1977	2000
1007	Non-Circ	Anguilla	Anguilla, Republic of	Unrecognised State - officially Brit Colony	1967	1969	1968	1970
1008	Non-Circ	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda	Associated State	1967	1981	1970	1970

Notes to the above table:

Column A numbers the 1086 Coin Series from my definitive list for the 20th Century. The 1000 Circulating series are listed first, followed by the Non-Circulating types. Note that Non-Circulating types are only included where the Coin Issuing Entity did not issue Circulating coinage.

Column C shows the main 273 entities. (Please note that I use the word entity rather than country as monetary unions and dependencies that are self autonomous, and officially issue their own coinage are included, not just sovereign states.) This is a good starting point for an OFEC collection.

Column D includes all of the sub-entities of the Main Entities. By sub-entity I mean the 1086 different coinage types or series produced by the main entities.

These include all coinage reforms, where no political change has taken place. There are several reasons for this. For instance an entity may simply decide to change the overall design of their coins. Usually however, there is an underlying reason for such a change. There may have been a devaluation of the currency, or they may for example have decimalised such as the UK did in 1971.

Column E shows the Political Designation of the Sub-Entity, or it shows the reason for the change of coinage such as a change of ruler or coinage re-design.

The dates given in the remaining columns also need explanation. The first set of dates reflect the period during which the Sub-Entity existed, or at least an approximation as the dates are not always cut and dried. Where no dates appear it is usually because the Entity in question is a change of coinage only and therefore the previous Political Entity would still be in effect. The second set of dates are the date range of the coins issued for that Sub-Entity.